Parts of Speech
What is a noun?
Most English sentences have a subject, verb, and this.
Object, or predicate
What is a character?
Resolute.
What is determination?
This 2016 Golden State Warriors point guard broke is own record for most 3 pointers in a season.
Who is Stephen Curry?
An action or state of being.
What is a verb?
A simple sentence has a clause that stands on its own, often called this kind of clause.
What is an independent clause?
The events in a story that make it interesting, usually charted as a triangle or pyramid.
What is the plot?
Posthumous.
What is 'after death'?
This beloved Eric Carle book begins, “In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf”
What is "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"?
Describes a noun or another word in its category.
What is an adjective?
This sentences is a little more complicated, because it links an independent clause with a dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
The person who tells us the story - can be first, second, or third person.
Who is the narrator?
Efficacy.
What is 'effective, able to produce an intended result'?
On a staff signature, it is the name of the clef on the top, usually played with the right hand.
What is a treble clef?
Usual-ly, these end in '-ly'
What is an adverb?
Like you might call an herbal mixture, this kind of sentence combines complete ideas; it might even use a semicolon to do this.
What is a compound sentence?
The characters' worldview. The way they see the world. Not point of view.
What is perspective?
Obfuscate.
What is to make something confusing (on purpose?)
The Moon's phase occurring between the first quarter and the full moon is described as gibbous and this, meaning 'growing', as the illuminated area increases.
What is a waxing gibbous?
A word that describes a relationship between two objects.
What is a preposition?
The most tricky kind of sentence, it uses tricks from both non-simple sentence structures; it combines complete phrases, but it hooks a dependent phrase on too.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
Common in comic books, this term means a sound written out. "Boom!"
What is onomatopoeia?
Animosity.
What is a feeling or spirit of resentment?
This colorful pirate's reign of terror along the Carolina coast ended when he was killed in battle on Nov. 22, 1718
Who is Blackbeard?